[vcf-midatlantic] VCF East 2024 Atari Classroom

[Dean Notarnicola]

Wil,
Thank you! DOS will only get a brief treatment to show how to save/
retrieve files.  I’d love to do Action! (my favorite back in the day) but I
think it’d be too involved for time we have. I’ll be in touch with you over
I finalize the syllabus.

Any Atari 8-bit with at least 48K of RAM will do!


On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 6:55 PM Wil <wil at birkmaier.org> wrote:

> I don't know if it was my middle school specifically but we did logo,
> basic and action! For our intro to coding classes on Atari 800s with 810s.
> If could remember anything I learned beyond Atari dos, having dual drives
> and happy computer chips, I would be more than glad to help teach.
>
> What hardware are you looking for?
>
> On Dec 28, 2023 17:43, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> All,
> Being that it’s the 45th anniversary of the release of the Atari computer
> and continuing the still popular 6502 theme, I will be doing an Atari
> classroom similar to the Apple classroom that was done two years ago.
>
> I have a quantity of Atari computers that I am reconditioning in advance
> of
> the class, but I’m anticipating that I will be needing more working units
> of any of the Atari 8-bit family.  My ask is that if anyone has machines
> to
> sell/lend/donate for this effort, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> As well, I welcome any teaching assistance from anyone who has experience
> with Atari BASIC and/or assembly language. The courses will be similar to
> the Apple classes with beginning and advanced BASIC/assembly and an
> overview of the system architecture.
>
> Thank you,
> Dean
>
> p.s. - Planned for next year is a CoCo classroom to give the 6809 some
> love, so I’ll be bugging everyone again at that time  ;-)
>
>
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